1 “Community-shared agriculture” or “Community-supported agriculture,” a system for farmers to sell city-dwellers a subscription to the crops, delivering them weekly to a designated spot in the city.

2 New York apartments under rent control are extremely rare. If rent-stabilized apartments—whose rent increases are regulated by the city—are an endangered species, apartments with rent control, where rent hikes have a fixed ceiling, are nearly extinct. They make up less than 2 percent of the housing stock.

3 Toussaint’s switch from her (the landlord’s attorney) to them (whoever that may be) sends Barbara Williams flashing across my mind. I hear her voice telling me to cut Toussaint off and ask him about them, ask him who, exactly, they are. But then he backs off, perhaps aware of the switch, and reverts back to she.

4 A certification process administered by the US Green Building Council that verifies certain buildings “save money and resources and have a positive impact on the health of occupants.”

5 US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

6 Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement.

7 Everything one might need for an injection: a needle; a band of rubber to tie around the arm; a vessel of some kind, emptied of the drug it once contained.